Africa

• 8 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: terrorism does not make any distinction between Christians and Muslims Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Terrorism "does not make any distinction between Christians and Muslims", and even when it is fueled by religious ideology, it indiscriminately affects all believers in God, fomenting sectarian st ...
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  8 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr: return the homes illegally stolen from Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Christian politician Pascale Warda, former immigration minister in the first government of transition following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, has publicly expressed her satis ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Country ignores the disabled in the fight against HIV, the blind and the deaf the hardest hit Chachacha (Agenzia Fides) - In Zimbabwe, home to 14 million people and, according to the National Association of Societies of Assistance to the Disabled, all over the country there are 1 billion 800 million disabled, dea ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Insufficient funds and closure of schools: 18,000 students without education El Fasher (Agenzia Fides) - In Zamzam refugee camp, near the town of El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, the schooling of about 18,000 students is at risk. According to local sources, the lack of funding has forced the c ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al-Sisi attends Christmas Eve in the Coptic Cathedral Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took attended the Coptic Christmas Eve mass celebrated by the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II at the St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral on Wednesd ...
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  5 January 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Explosions in Bujumbura; in Nairobi Burundian opponents threatened with death Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - A strong explosion occurred near a Catholic convent in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi. The incident occurred yesterday, January 4. "We do not know well what happened", refer to Agenzia Fides lo ...
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  5 January 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Presidential elections: two-thirds of the candidates denounce fraud and call for the suspension of the counting of votes Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty of the 30 candidates in the presidential elections held on 30 December in the Central African Republic (see Fides 29/12/2015) yesterday, January 4, asked to stop the counting of votes, den ...
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  4 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar accuses the Coptic Church of inspiring anti-Islamic television programs Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The accusations launched by the al-Azhar Observatory against the Coptic Church with regards to anti-Islamic television programs broadcast by the channels of the NileSat platform were rejected by t ...
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  4 January 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops are committed to promoting dialogue in view of the 2016 election deadline Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo are committed to fostering dialogue among political parties and civil society in view of the 2016 election deadline. This was stated by Don Léon ...
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  29 December 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The testimony of a Bishop to Fides: Boko Haram attacks Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The terrorists of Boko Haram arrived in the afternoon of December 27 in different areas of Maiduguri, introducing themselves in some homes and killing the inhabitants, while in other areas they s ...
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  29 December 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Bishop of Bangassou: "We hope for a higher voter turnout across the country" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope that the turnout in Bangui and in other parts of the Country is high; we would not want to be the only ones to elect a new President", says His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Muños, Bisho ...
• 28 December 2015
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Mpika Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 December 2015, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Justin Mulenga, Pastoral Coordinator of the Archdiocese of Kasama as Bishop of Mpika (Zambia). Rev. Justin Mulenga was born on February ...
• 28 December 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Bishops: "The proximity of the Christian Christmas and the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet is an invitation to dialogue" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "This year the feast of Mouloud and Christmas coincide. This sign invites us, Christians and Muslims, to dialogue in order to bring peace to the world in the name of our common faith in Abraham, ...
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  28 December 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 50 dead in new massacres in the east of the Country on Christmas Eve Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas Eve marked by blood in three places in the territory of Beni, in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to news sent to Agenzia Fides, in the early mor ...
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  23 December 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Child abuse in the capital increases Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Sudanese Ministry of Health expressed its concern regarding the increase in cases of sexual abuse against minors in the state of Khartoum. The victims are in particular school children. Acc ...